Game Scores is one of the many contributions to Sabermetrics by Bill James. It was his method of determining how proficient a starting pitcher was in any given game. Here is a short article from Wikipedia that gives a brief explanation of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Score I decided to see how the Reds' starters from 2006 fared under this system.

If a Game Score of 50 is the dividing line between a quality start or not I picked these categories as follows:60+ is a very good start,50-59 an average to slightly above average start,40-49 an average to slightly below average start, <39 a poor start. The W/L records match this for the most part. Except I thought the W/L record for the 50-59 starts would be better than for the 40-49 starts. However they turned out to be almost identical.

After that I just decided to list the 6 Best and 6 Worst starting performances for the Reds in 2006. They are as follows;